{"id":439789,"date":"2021-10-04T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T05:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439789"},"modified":"2021-10-04T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T05:46:47","slug":"petrol-demand-surged-9-above-pre-pandemic-level-diesel-stayed-6-5-lower-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-demand-surged-9-above-pre-pandemic-level-diesel-stayed-6-5-lower-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol demand surged 9% above pre-pandemic level, diesel stayed 6.5% lower in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demand for petrol surged 9% above the pre-pandemic level while that for diesel stayed 6.5% lower in September, in a sign of divergent recovery paths the two fuels have taken following the easing of Covid restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol sales rose 6.6% year-on-year in September while diesel rose barely 1% over last year, as per the preliminary sales data from state-run oil companies that control nearly 90% of the fuel retail market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demand for petrol surged 9% above the pre-pandemic level while that for diesel stayed 6.5% lower in September, in a sign of divergent recovery paths the two fuels have taken following the easing of Covid restrictions. Petrol sales rose 6.6% year-on-year in September while diesel rose barely 1% over last year, as per the preliminary sales data from state-run oil companies that control nearly 90% of the fuel retail market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}